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CULTURE SHOCK
Can all exchange students easily fit into any family in any country or culture? ... Each student is a product of his or her own culture and carries, sometimes unconsciously, a set of home culture values, attitudes, beliefs and ideas into the new country. Over a period of time, these values can come into conflict with the new culture. The extreme difficulty of getting along with the new culture is called "culture shock," and it is a serious part of the adjustment process that happens to almost every person who lives in a foreign culture. Surprisingly, it happens no matter how many times one has lived in another culture.
Understanding what culture shock is, why culture shock happens, what the symptoms are, and how to overcome it, will help both students & host families cope with it.
A Definition of Culture Shock: Culture shock is your mind and bodys reaction to being disoriented and feeling overwhelmed by a culture that is not familiar to you. ...
In your own culture, you know the language, all the ways of doing things, non-verbal behaviors, peoples values and ways of reasoning. ...
In a foreign culture, you do not know all of these things at first. ...
Culture shock has two important characteristics:
1. ... It comes after you encounter different ways of doing, thinking about, or valuing things that are different from your own culture. ... The second idea about culture shock is that it does not strike suddenly or have only one cause.
Approximate Word count = 1229
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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